VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac

Titus Andronicus writes "Years in the making, the major new release of VideoLAN's media player has better support for multicore processors, GPUs, and much, much more. From the announcement: 'Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental). Completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use. Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers.'"

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"FOR ANIME FANS"

[Anonymous Coward]

Aka, for the neckbearded virgins.

Re:"FOR ANIME FANS"

[Anonymous Coward]

Or what? Are you going to punch your real doll and cry to sleep like a true manchild?

I wonder if that changes the general advice...

[Anonymous Coward]

...of NOT using VLC. Whenever anyone complains about video playback problems, the first question is "what video player are you using?" Once they say "VLC" the response is "don't use VLC, use Media Player Classic Home Cinema," and they do, and everything works. ("But I use Linux!" Then you're used to video not working. "But I use Mac OS X!" Then you overpaid for your computer.)

Installing... Oh, nice it tries to steal file associations for all video/audio files when you install it. Let's just drag a video onto it and start playing and ... no? No drag and drop support? Seriously?

OK, fine, right click on the file and "Play in VLC." Huh. The colors all washed out. Let's just fire up MPC and drag the file onto that - oh, hey, look, everything works perfectly! Color is correct, nothing is screwed up. Anyone want to help me figure out why it doesn't work, or should I just stick with the age-old advice of not using VLC?

I'm leaving slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi, I'm Anonymous Coward and I've been posting to slashdot from the very beginning.

However you lot have just become too fucking old. You've lost your idealism, and become shitty old men, which is why I'm moving to Reddit.
At first I was concerned by the lack of editors, but it's not like the editors here are worth a damn, and the new censorship system is just unacceptable. The mod system doesn't even go up to 11.

Well, it's been fun but fuck you all. And your mothers.
Good bye sirs.

So what is VideoLAN anyway?

[Ark42]

So what is VideoLAN anyway? Seems like something to stream video, over a LAN, based on the name at least?

Doesn't DLNA pretty much obsolete that? DLNA seems to be built into all my devices (tv, xbox, squeezebox) and Windows by default now, and works just fine.

I'm confused as to what this software is for, and why I should care about it.

Re:Not Bad

[BitZtream]

Name one innocent person who has ACTUALLY been extradited by the US on BS chages for copyright violations.

Go ahead, I'll wait.

I'm not saying that its never going to happen, but it just hasn't happened yet, at least not in my life time.

You people just don't fucking get it.

We don't come get you and extradite you when we ACTUALLY want to get you. We just do that when we want to pretend you matter, but you really don't. See Julian Assange. When we actually want to get you, you just cease to exist one night. Its far cleaner and raises FAR fewer questions, even if a CIA agent comes out the next day and tells you he did it.